I patiently await the day when one of my sets of cool, married, non-architect friends decide to build their own house and want me to design it. I will agree, of course, to design it and manage the building of it as long as they let me pick the site and have complete creative control.

Either that or a bridge. Or a tower. Actually I think it would be funny to design a gas station. But really I haven't thought about it at all :o)

A house would be good, especially with a lot of freedom, in fact it would be hard to know where to start given complete freedom, don't you think?

A tower would be cool 8-)

signum, i heard a guy [owner, possibly] talking about the closing of cbgb's. he said, good thing he was good and drunk when the lights came on at 4am because seeing the club with the lights on was so depressing.

complete creative control, is somewhat ridiculous to ask for in our profession. this is a service based profession. you work for the client. therefore, their needs and wants need to be addressed. they come to you because they like your work, but you can't ignore them.

e - cbgb's, have to be honest that's the first time I've heard of it, plus I go clubbing mostly in Scotland, so maybe it's no surprise.

I think after being a student you get used to having "complete creative control" (though "complete sanity control rarely occurs) I don't expect it to happen professionally however!

cbgb's is a punk/rock club in nyc. obviously, nothing special in terms of design. just enjoyed him comment.

I've always thought that a church/temple/what have you would be a nice break, allowing for a 'feeling beyond function' aspect a lot of other projects don't allow as much room for.

architect's office or artitst's studio

i don't know about you guys, but seems 2 out of 5 people ask me if i have designed my own dream house yet. frankly i don't really want to design my own dream house because it would be sooo hard and never ending and cost a million dollars plus. this would be far down on the list, just above designing a rendering plant.

regarding my last post - i guess it is "dream" house that scares me the most. i really want to purchase a house and work on it, or do a realistic 2000 s.f. house for myself for real, but not a dream house - it sounds real fun but I don't wanna.

I've got two dreams. One would be a university building that has a massive donor who would let me have 100% design contol. Second would be an historic renovation/adaptive reuse of a historic building. I picture a place like the massive abandoned industrial buildings of detroit. It would be amazing to breathe new life into all that concrete and steel.

What building would I most like to see wiped off the face of the planet - Best Buy stores. Their prototype entrance grates at me more than any other corporate big box.

columbarium

this is an easy one: daycare/package liquor store/ lounge and cafe'

houseboat

library

of course there's always the parking garage / marine supply store...a fun

slaughterhouse

db - as i sit here and recount the volumes of books in the library for the millionth time hoping i got it right, i have taken library off my list. it used to sit at the top.

vada, look at Caminada's Abattoir/Slaughterhouse in Vrin, Switzerland, if you don't already know it.

indeed, library would be sweet

an entire cityyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

oops--sorry--just drooling thinking about it

Museum / private school / performance hall

the new barn - agritecture

a prison

or a planet

or a prison that is a planet

do planets even count?

my house. mine mine mine mine mine!

captain EO - think about the Death stat - the ultimate modernists dream!

stat = Star

*sigh*

a bar...i figure i spend enough time in them might as well design/build one of my own...

captain, have you played katamari damancy? you can make stars. and the moon